Dr. T Labs designs and hand assembles analog guitar pedals in Seal Beach, California. The Diamondback Terrapin (DT+) is the first pedal launched out of the labs.

About seven years ago I picked up the guitar again after a long hiatus. I started discovering effects pedals and built a small collection. Eventually, I wanted to understand the inner workings, so naturally without any research or previous experience I purchased a soldering iron and a nonfunctional phaser from Reverb.

With a clear goal set before me, I dug into how to troubleshoot the problem, learned everything I could about phaser circuits and eventually repaired the pedal. I was able to resell the pedal and used the proceeds to purchase additional projects to repair. I continued this process over the past few years and have repaired a couple dozen pedals.